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66 Bauhinia Galpini, N.E.Br. — This is a most promising flow- 

 ering shrub for the warm greenhouse which has been intro- 

 duced to Kew from the Transvaal. It has two-lobed leaves 

 and crowded racemes of large handsome crimson flowers, 

 borne on numerous twiggy branches. It grows to a height of 

 about six feet. A figure of it was published in Hooker' s I cones 

 last year (pi. 1994.) 



" Crinuni Roozenianum, O'Brien. — This is said to be near C % 

 Americanum, although the growth resembles C. erubescens. 

 The flowers are four to twelve in an umbel, six to eight inches 

 long, with recurved segments three to four inches long and 

 three-fourths of an inch wide, white. It has been introduced 

 from Jamaica by A. Roozen & Co., Haarlem. 



' Cocos Pynaertii, Hort. , is a seedling form of C. Weddelliana, 

 with very narrow leaf-segments. It was raised by Monsieur 

 Pynaert, of Ghent, and figured in the Revue de I Horticulture 

 Beige last year (p. 91, fig. 15) under the name of C. minima 

 glauca. 



" Cliveucharis pulchra, Hort. — It was stated last year that New 

 L. Van Houtte, of Ghent, had succeeded in raising a bigen- house" 

 eric hybrid from clivea and Eucharis Amazonica, of which plants, 

 further detail would presently be published. Such a cross, if 

 successful, cannot fail to be of exceptional interest. 



66 Dipladenia illustris var. glabra, is a handsome stove- 

 climber with a woody root-stock, annual climbing stems, 

 thick ovate leaves, and large, rosy red flowers. It has been 

 introduced from Brazil, and flowered at Kew last year. 



" Epiphyllum Gaertneri was introduced several years ago 

 under the names E. Makoyanum and E. Russellianum var. 

 Gaertneri. It was at first supposed to be a hybrid between 

 cereus and epiphyllum, but it now proves to be an introduc- 

 tion from Brazil and a third good species of epiphyllum. It 

 is a beautiful stove-plant, at least equal to the best of the 

 varieties of this genus grown, and at the same time abund- 

 antly distinct from them all. A figure of it was published in 

 the Botanical Magazine (t. 7201). 



" Impatiens mirabilis. — This extraordinary species is a native 

 of Malaya, where it forms an erect, naked, succulent trunk 

 four feet high, and as thick as a man's leg ; leaves nearly a 

 foot long, and large inflated, fleshy, golden yellow flowers. 

 It flowered at Kew, and was figured in Botanical Magazine 

 '(£> 7195)- 



